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Friday, October 1, 1993
Plan revised after Waco raid failed
Report says agents from ATF hid changes from investigators
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Investigators have concluded that federal agents who commanded the Feb. 28 raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Texas rewrote the action plan after the raid ended in disaster, a law enforcement official said Wednesday night.
The report, to be released today, says that the action plan written for the raid by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
agents was incomplete and lacked detail. said the federal law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The official confirmed details of the plan were reported in yesterday's editions of The Washington Post.
An investigation ordered last spring by President Clinton determined that after the raid ended in a shootout that left four ATF agents and six culists dead, supervisors decided to rewrite the plan, the source said.
The Post quoted the report as saying ATF supervisors wrote after the raid that a raid was necessary because cult leader David Koresh would not leave the compound and thus could not be arrested elsewhere.
But it later was learned that Koresh did occasionally leave the complex.
The after-the-fact alterations in the action plan were concealed from the Texas Rangers and from Treasury Department investigators, who wrote the 500-page report, the officials said.
The report also concluded that ATF agents near the compound outside Waco, Texas, had ample warning before their assault that Koresh had been warned of the impending raid, the official said. After the raid, ATF officials blamed the loss of surprise for the disaster.
The Feb. 28 shootout ended in a 51-day standoff. On April 19, the FBI pumped tear gas into the compound from armored tanks, and authorities said cult members set a fire inside that quickly consumed the wooden structure.
As many as 85 men, women and children
in the compound died in the fire or were shot to death by fellow cult members.
The report on the failed raid was being released by Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentse, whose department includes ATF. The investigation was supervised by Ronald K. Noble, assistant Treasury secretary for enforcement.
The two Houston-based ATF agents accused of deception by the report were summoned to Washington this week to meet with Noble, the official said.
Court papers made public last spring indicate that ATF learned that Koresh knew the raid was about to take place from an undercover agent who was in the compound the morning of Feb. 28. The agent reported what he overheard to ATF officials who were at the scene.
Commerce chief denies allegations of embargo bribery
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Commerce Secretary Ron Brown said he expected to be exonerated by a federal grand jury investigation into allegations that he accepted $700,000 to help lift the U.S. trade embargo against Vietnam.
But he will not discuss his meetings with a Vietnamese businessman who is a key figure in the probe.
Attorney General Janet Reno said that she had no plans to appoint a special prosecutor, as called for by two Republican congressmen, because there still could be an appearance of a conflict of interest.
"I if appoint the person or select the person, you're still going to question the conflict as long as I am involved in that process," Reno told reporters at her weekly news briefing.
She said that the Brown case epitomized the kind of situation in which an independent counsel would be called for, but the law expired last year.
Congress is reviewing legislation to reinstitute it. Brown said it would be "entirely inappropriate" for him to speak on the subject while the grand jury investigation continued. He added, however, that he was confident he would be exonerated.
Poll finds many willing to pay more for health-care coverage
The Associated Press
NEWYORK—Four in 10 Americans think health care under President Clinton's plan would cost their families more, and six in 10 are willing to pay $100 more in taxes to secure coverage for everyone, a poll found.
Hillary Rodham Clinton said about 10 to 12 percent of the population — mostly young, healthy people — would have to pay more for the same benefits and an additional 20 to 22 percent would probably pay a little more money for better benefits.
In the Associated Press poll, taken Sept. 22-26, 45 percent spread evenly among all ages expected to pay more than they are paying now. Nine percent thought that Clinton's plan would save them money, 33 percent expected to pay the same, and 13 percent were not sure.
Thirty percent — representing more than 55 million adults — said they were not sure whether they favored or opposed the plan Clinton
described to Congress in a televised speech the night the poll began.
Among the rest, 48 percent favored the proposal and 22 percent were opposed. Looking at the results by various categories shows that opponents are most likely to be men with family incomes above $50,000.
The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points for results of the poll of 1,004 adults by ICR Survey Research Group, part of AUS Consultants.
Opponents are twice as likely as supporters be among the 30 percent who think Clinton is underestimating his program's cost. Seventy-eight percent of the plan's opponents expect their family would pay more after Clinton's changes, compared with 28 percent of supporters.
The upper-income respondents are more willing than those of more modest means to pay additional taxes for a health security plan in which all Americans have coverage even if they lose their jobs, change jobs or have a serious illness.
The number expecting to pay more also varied by family income. It ranged from 32 percent of those earning under $15,000 a year to 59 percent of those with incomes above $50,000.
Overall, 64 percent said they would be willing to pay $100 more in taxes each year. That share varied from 47 percent of those earning under $15,000 to 80 percent of those earning above $50,000.
Only 26 percent of those polled said they would be willing to pay $250 more, a share ranging from 16 percent of the low-income group to 40 percent of the high-income people.
Those willing to pay $500 more a year in taxes are a scant 7 percent overall, but 17 percent of those in the high-income category.
Clinton said that his program would squeeze enough savings out of a wasteful health care system to pay for itself without any broad-based new taxes.
Powell has high approval rating as he leaves office
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — In a town that delights in tearing down reputations, Colin Powell walks on water.
As he left office yesterday after four years as the nation's top military officer, Powell's job approval rating towered above that of President Clinton, Ross Perot and Sen. Bob Dole.
In a country that reveres its military leaders but rarely elects them, Powell is often compared to Dwight E. Dickenhower. He admires Eisenhower, Grant and Washington, three generals who became president
No one is sure whether Powell is a Republican or a Democrat, a mystery that only adds to his allure.
"Active-duty military officers have no business talking about partisan political matters, and so nobody knows what party I belong to or don't belong to or may belong to," Powell told the National Press Club this week.
Colin Powell
"There is total confusion as to what my political philosophy might or might not be," he said. "This is the wav it should be."
Powell bid farewell to President Clinton yesterday in an hour-long meeting in the president's study.
This week Powell turned in his Army greens for the business suit of the private world. He will write his memoirs for a reported $6 million. He will almost certainly hit the lecture circuit. But he is just 56, and his future is wide open and bright.
Powell has broken his share of ground — the first African-American to serve as White House national security adviser and the first African-American chair of the Joint Chiefs.
But for all his prominence, Powell "doesn't forget where he came from," said Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, who has known the general for a decade. Powell, who grew up in the Bronx, regularly visits inner-city schools and "orders" African-American youths to stay in school and avoid drugs.
A recent poll for U.S.News & World Report said 62 percent of Americans had a favorable view of Powell, compared with 49 percent for Clinton, 45 percent for Perot and 43 for Senate Republican leader Dole.
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